DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Carrizo Springs Station arrested a Mexican national who had been previously convicted of murder. “Our agents work tirelessly to protect our nation’s borders, and this is just another great example of their efforts,” said Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol…

By: Jose G. Landa, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Division of Emergency Management notified Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo that Maverick County’s Application for Disaster Relief due to the October 8, 2015 flooding caused by over 12 inches of rain during…

By Mary Kenney, Senior Staff Attorney at the American Immigration Council and Patrick Taurel, Legal Fellow at the American Immigration Council. On June 7, 2010, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, a fifteen-year-old Mexican national, was playing with a group of friends on the Mexican side of the border near the Paso del…

Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Texas businesses and residents affected by flooding that occurred October 8 – 9, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet announced today. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. Greg…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer from Brownsville has been sentenced for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Luis Zavala, 38, pleaded guilty March 3, 2015. On October 8, 2015, U.S. District…

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS – IBC Bank-Eagle Pass has promoted Carlos Garza to vice president of Commercial Lending. In his new role Garza will manage an expanded portfolio of commercial loans and deposits and serve as the primary interface between the area business community and the bank. It is Garza’s fifth…

(Press Release) In Midland, 22–year-old Zane Paul O’Neal faces an agreed sentence of 23 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to his role in the death of Sandy Brooke Franklin earlier this year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune Oct. 23, 2015 WASHINGTON — For the first time in 24 years, Pete Gallego is not legislating. And it’s obvious he misses it. After decades spent as a Democratic fixture at the Texas Capitol, Gallego served a single term in Congress, where he lost…

District Attorney Roberto Serna District Attorney Roberto Serna reported that on October 22, 2015, a Maverick County jury found Amado Cantu, Jr., 49 years of age, guilty of the felony offense of Theft. The jury sentenced Amado Cantu, Jr., to 2 years confinement in the state jail penitentiary, the maximum…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2015 The thundering Eagle Pass C. C. Winn High School Mavericks rolled past nemesis Laredo Martin High Scchool Tigers 14-13 in a key District 29-5A football game on Thursday, October 22, 2015, at Laredo Independent School District Shirley Field in…